Yeah, sure, it won't suffer, except that it buys natural resource in amount like never done before. Who is going to pay this? The country? Japan is one of the worlds countries with the most debt and the most government debt of all of them.
And for natural resources? Well water is pretty much used up unless you want to destroy nature. Geothermal, although used in some places, has not really worked out anywhere as the ideal solution (high maintenance) And that leaves Wind, wave and solar. From those three I only see wind and solar as something that can partly replace nuclear power. But wind is currently in test and study mode, there are no major wind farms in Japan. There are plans for building one in Kyushu (in the south, different electricity type to north of Japan), but again, those are just test platforms and nothing of a real one.
There are some minor solar farms, but there is no real space to do that. There are no wide areas which you could plaster with solar panels, besides the cost and efficiency of solar power is not really optimal.
And wave? There are worldwide only some test plants, nothing really built yet. Might work to some part, but again, in costal areas they might cause more troubles than they would do good.
Importing more gas and oil like any other nation. Running on the edge of support. Most suffering are factors small and big that cannot run full because of this problem.
This is just something that doesn't get told in the media outside. This is an economical problem because you just can't built some new power plants in a view months and have enough backup energy for this case.
You might want to look into how radiation works. If something has a half life of 25.000 years I am not really worried. If something has a half life of 30 years, I am much more worried.
Furthermore, non of the reactors exploded, therefor all the reactor fuel is either inside, or melted through the reactor to the bassin. It was not spread around the country side like in Tschernobyl.
Furthermore if nuclear power is so cost ineffective and would need so much support from governments and is all just a ruse, then can you explain to me why so many countries build them?
Just compare the space needed for one nuclear power plant vs wind or solar.
I am one of those who used Linux on the Desktop for more than 10 years and then switched to a Mac.
Privately because my interests shifted and the Software I need does not run on Linux.
At work, because I spent more time making shit run and work than actually working. Fixing some shitty mp3 player to play music is not really 100% needed for work, but it just sucks. Having the 1000th issue with flash is in my work environment just unexpectable. I need flash, even when I hate it.
In general BD players are fuck slow. Probably all the DRM crap.
Sony SLRs are very good, they use very good glass (ZEISS) and their mirror less line (NEX) is just stunning. Of course it is a bit hard to catch up to Canon or Nikon with their hardcore pro bodies).
Unless each an every company uses only google docs then MS doesn't have to worry. Our company uses GoogleDocs, and still we need MS Office because we get documents from clients as MS Office documents. So actually we have to pay twice now.
I agree to this 150% and more. I was not sure if I want a SSD in my new iMac, but I went for it. Anyone who hasn't use a SSD yet, does not know how blazing fast this is. Booting in 2s, start Photoshop in 2s and meanwhile restore Chrome with 10 windows and 50 tabs and what not else. This is just amazing.
Every time I have to reboot my work Mac I really want to ask for a SSD. So slow... so horrible slow.
Which is not true at all. If you know where to go you can get vegetables very cheap. My expense for only eating cup ramen would be way higher than normal shopping. Because you can cook that stuff and freeze it.
But I agree that the general agriculture policies in Japan are fucked up. They import way too much food from outside of Japan and I also fully agree that fruits are horrible overpriced. But lucky for that you have connections where you get the apples cheap from some far relative from a friend.
Although I did the same, for most people it is really hard to leave their comfort zone, move to a different country where they don't speak the language and have in general no idea what they are doing.
I have no idea what photographer you are, but we do use 16bit per channel data. But perhaps you do not work in this kind of print area. It probably depends for what publication you do your work for.
Can GIMP handle CMYK? Does it already work with 16/32bit color space? Does it actually work with various color spaces?
I honestly do not know, the last time I used GIMP (on a Mac) it was so horrible slow that I just gave up on it.
I am pretty sure GIMP is very powerful, but when everyone uses Photoshop, it will be kind of hard to say "hey here is a gimp file". You alone probably has no problem with it.
Actually you do not get the Towerbucks so much at random. You get them when you full stock a store, add new floor. The only random Towerbuck is from people who ride the elevator.
Plus the only need for Towerbucks is to get faster elevators, other is just to get more coins to build floors faster. But for the elevators, you really can get the towerbucks very fast, and for the other part, unless you are super impatient, you do not need it either.
Actually, from all those game types, Tiny Tower is the least "you need to buy shit with your real money". Plus there is no need to get "friends" to actually get anything going. Those are the most annoying free games.
I have exact the same experience. And like you I switched to Chrome and asked myself why I didn't do this earlier. The only reason I have FF still running at work is fore developing and testing. But at home I am 100% Chrome.
If you buy a Canon L lens you can mount that on any canon body from the cheap entry level to the high end cameras. And I doubt Canon will change their mount any time in the future. When I look at my camera/lens purchases, the best "investment" are the lenses, because I still use the same ones I bought 7 or 8 years ago whereas the bodies have changed in between.
The same is for Nikon, the only difference is that the lowest Nikons do not have a built in motor and so cannot use stone old lenses. Thats normally not the lenses people buy or have unless they inherit them from someone.
And at night? Cloudy sky? You calculate at peak time of the sun, but then this is not the peak time of the electricity usage. Unless we stop using electricity at night you need some way to store the electricity for the time when you cannot get peak. Which means you need to build the array much larger, much much larger. And you need electricity storage in very large volumes. I honestly do not know a system where you can store several megawatts of energy in a battery.
Because they suck, they change all the time and the software above might talk to ALSA but not Pulse, or only direct, etc. This is all just a confusing thing. KDE does this, Gnome does that and who knows what the others do.
At some point you just say, whatever and use an OS where you do not have to worry about any of this crap and it actually works out of the box. Who cares if they have to support gazillions of hardware alterations, at the end the user experience is what counts.
And if I have a better one with Apple because of their limited hardware selection, then I will go with this.
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Yeah, sure, it won't suffer, except that it buys natural resource in amount like never done before. Who is going to pay this? The country? Japan is one of the worlds countries with the most debt and the most government debt of all of them.
And for natural resources? Well water is pretty much used up unless you want to destroy nature. Geothermal, although used in some places, has not really worked out anywhere as the ideal solution (high maintenance) And that leaves Wind, wave and solar. From those three I only see wind and solar as something that can partly replace nuclear power. But wind is currently in test and study mode, there are no major wind farms in Japan. There are plans for building one in Kyushu (in the south, different electricity type to north of Japan), but again, those are just test platforms and nothing of a real one.
There are some minor solar farms, but there is no real space to do that. There are no wide areas which you could plaster with solar panels, besides the cost and efficiency of solar power is not really optimal.
And wave? There are worldwide only some test plants, nothing really built yet. Might work to some part, but again, in costal areas they might cause more troubles than they would do good.
Oh, and the fact that they have the idiot 50/60 Hz electricity split in this country.
Importing more gas and oil like any other nation. Running on the edge of support. Most suffering are factors small and big that cannot run full because of this problem.
This is just something that doesn't get told in the media outside. This is an economical problem because you just can't built some new power plants in a view months and have enough backup energy for this case.
You might want to look into how radiation works. If something has a half life of 25.000 years I am not really worried. If something has a half life of 30 years, I am much more worried.
Furthermore, non of the reactors exploded, therefor all the reactor fuel is either inside, or melted through the reactor to the bassin. It was not spread around the country side like in Tschernobyl.
Furthermore if nuclear power is so cost ineffective and would need so much support from governments and is all just a ruse, then can you explain to me why so many countries build them?
Just compare the space needed for one nuclear power plant vs wind or solar.
Actually true. I have no idea how that works, but it seems to work.
I remember in the first iteration it did not work this way.
That is not how japanese input and search works. As long as you are in the japanese input mode, google is not searching anything.
Still, stupid HR idiots. All of them. If they link his name to a criminal record without even talking to him, then they are just stupid idiots.
I am one of those who used Linux on the Desktop for more than 10 years and then switched to a Mac.
Privately because my interests shifted and the Software I need does not run on Linux.
At work, because I spent more time making shit run and work than actually working. Fixing some shitty mp3 player to play music is not really 100% needed for work, but it just sucks. Having the 1000th issue with flash is in my work environment just unexpectable. I need flash, even when I hate it.
I have never used a real name on any network.
There is a difference between using a retarded name and a fake real name.
In general BD players are fuck slow. Probably all the DRM crap.
Sony SLRs are very good, they use very good glass (ZEISS) and their mirror less line (NEX) is just stunning. Of course it is a bit hard to catch up to Canon or Nikon with their hardcore pro bodies).
Unless each an every company uses only google docs then MS doesn't have to worry. Our company uses GoogleDocs, and still we need MS Office because we get documents from clients as MS Office documents. So actually we have to pay twice now.
I agree to this 150% and more. I was not sure if I want a SSD in my new iMac, but I went for it. Anyone who hasn't use a SSD yet, does not know how blazing fast this is. Booting in 2s, start Photoshop in 2s and meanwhile restore Chrome with 10 windows and 50 tabs and what not else. This is just amazing.
Every time I have to reboot my work Mac I really want to ask for a SSD. So slow ... so horrible slow.
Hmm, interesting, because here in Tokyo, seeing a fat kid or teen is really really really rare.
Which is not true at all. If you know where to go you can get vegetables very cheap. My expense for only eating cup ramen would be way higher than normal shopping. Because you can cook that stuff and freeze it.
But I agree that the general agriculture policies in Japan are fucked up. They import way too much food from outside of Japan and I also fully agree that fruits are horrible overpriced. But lucky for that you have connections where you get the apples cheap from some far relative from a friend.
Sic tacuisses, philosophus mansisses
Although I did the same, for most people it is really hard to leave their comfort zone, move to a different country where they don't speak the language and have in general no idea what they are doing.
You don't have to be drunk close to vomit in a bar. I met my GF in a bar, and neither of use was very drunk at that time.
Interesting. When we do catalogue print there is only working in 16bit.
I have no idea what photographer you are, but we do use 16bit per channel data. But perhaps you do not work in this kind of print area. It probably depends for what publication you do your work for.
Can GIMP handle CMYK? Does it already work with 16/32bit color space? Does it actually work with various color spaces?
I honestly do not know, the last time I used GIMP (on a Mac) it was so horrible slow that I just gave up on it.
I am pretty sure GIMP is very powerful, but when everyone uses Photoshop, it will be kind of hard to say "hey here is a gimp file". You alone probably has no problem with it.
Actually you do not get the Towerbucks so much at random. You get them when you full stock a store, add new floor. The only random Towerbuck is from people who ride the elevator.
Plus the only need for Towerbucks is to get faster elevators, other is just to get more coins to build floors faster. But for the elevators, you really can get the towerbucks very fast, and for the other part, unless you are super impatient, you do not need it either.
Actually, from all those game types, Tiny Tower is the least "you need to buy shit with your real money". Plus there is no need to get "friends" to actually get anything going. Those are the most annoying free games.
I have exact the same experience. And like you I switched to Chrome and asked myself why I didn't do this earlier. The only reason I have FF still running at work is fore developing and testing. But at home I am 100% Chrome.
None of those addresses is a valid address in Austria. Nor do we have any of those city names. They sound way more eastern europe like.
If you buy a Canon L lens you can mount that on any canon body from the cheap entry level to the high end cameras. And I doubt Canon will change their mount any time in the future. When I look at my camera/lens purchases, the best "investment" are the lenses, because I still use the same ones I bought 7 or 8 years ago whereas the bodies have changed in between.
The same is for Nikon, the only difference is that the lowest Nikons do not have a built in motor and so cannot use stone old lenses. Thats normally not the lenses people buy or have unless they inherit them from someone.
And at night? Cloudy sky? You calculate at peak time of the sun, but then this is not the peak time of the electricity usage. Unless we stop using electricity at night you need some way to store the electricity for the time when you cannot get peak. Which means you need to build the array much larger, much much larger. And you need electricity storage in very large volumes. I honestly do not know a system where you can store several megawatts of energy in a battery.
Because they suck, they change all the time and the software above might talk to ALSA but not Pulse, or only direct, etc. This is all just a confusing thing. KDE does this, Gnome does that and who knows what the others do.
At some point you just say, whatever and use an OS where you do not have to worry about any of this crap and it actually works out of the box. Who cares if they have to support gazillions of hardware alterations, at the end the user experience is what counts.
And if I have a better one with Apple because of their limited hardware selection, then I will go with this.